A PLANE SUSPENDED FROM THE NACELLE OF A FLYING AIRSHIP IS RELEASED INTO THE AIR

After a fall of about fifty meters, it regains its balance by itself
Dayton (Ohio), Oct. 4 (d. Pet. Paris.) A Sparry Messenger plane, transported by the military airship T. C. 5, was abandoned to itself from a height of seven hundred meters.
The aircraft almost immediately found its balance and, after having made a rather sudden fall of some fifty meters, resumed its flight normally.
This experiment, which opens new possibilities to the naval aeroplane, proves in particular that it will henceforth be possible to use ordinary planes at sea and to moor them under airships on their return from their raid.

We will point out that it was following an experiment having many analogies with that of Dayton that Pégoud undertook his first experiments in "reversed flight". Pégoud, jumping with a parachute, abandoned a plane in mid-flight which, without a pilot, regained its balance after several pirouettes and returned to land very normally.